Faculty & Programs

We are pleased to announce that Ted Ralphs has received the 2026 INFORMS Computing Society Distinguished Service Award. Professor Ralphs is a faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University. The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) is one of the most active societies within the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Arindam Banerjee, the Paul B. Reinhold Professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University, has been named an editor-in-chief of Renewable Energy, an international research journal published by Elsevier.

Luis Nunes Vicente, Timothy J. Wilmott ’80 Endowed Chair Professor at Lehigh University, has received a three-year, $464,995 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for the project “Stochastic Vector and Set-Valued Methods for Optimization and Learning.”  The award began September 1, 2026.